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No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A new podcast from the writers of QI, who discuss the best facts they've found that week. The pilot episode features Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) & Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm)

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0:00.0	We run it on QI a few years ago, which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:04.4	It's been a nice such thing as a fish.
0:05.6	No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
0:09.9	It says it, right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.
0:23.9	Hello and welcome to the pilot episode of No Such Thing as a Fish
0:28.2	coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:32.0	My name is Dan. I'm sitting with three other QI elves, James, Andy, and Anna.
0:37.1	And each week we're going to get around this microphone and share our favorite
0:40.4	facts from the last seven days. So in no particular order,
0:45.1	here are the best things we found out this week.
0:51.8	Okay, let's start with fact number one that comes from you James.
0:55.1	I went this weekend to the Collider Exhibition, the Large Hadron Collider
1:00.6	Exhibition at the Science Museum, which is pretty cool.
1:03.4	And I got fat there. The Large Hadron Collider was almost turned off.
1:09.2	I think it was turned off for a short amount of time, for what reason?
1:12.1	What do you think? Because the rewiring that needed maintenance.
1:16.0	We're good maintenance. Yeah.
1:17.6	And it's a lot more low-fi than that. Apparently they found a piece of
1:20.7	baguette in the machinery. And it made the temperature go up by seven degrees
1:24.8	and they had to turn the whole thing off before they found the baguette.
1:27.7	If you were with the friends, this will happen.
1:30.7	I'm always throwing my baguette into the machine after that.
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